Many thanks to all who replied.
The general view is that a script to parse the output of the metastat
command on a regular basis is the easiest route forward.
Unfortunately, due to the format of the metastat output, you either end up
with a very simple script which checks for a status line without "Okay"
included on it or you end up with a really heavy case of (n)awk-ing the
output to understand which is being reported as not being Okay and
presenting some useful information to the user.
In my case, I need to know exactly what has failed so just knowing that
something is wrong on a given machine isn't too helpful.
I'm attaching a script which I hope others might find useful and it is
capable of checking ODS and Vertias statuses.
My thanks to all who replied:
Rachel Polanskis [r.polanskis@nepean.uws.edu.au] for the script!
Seth Rothenberg [SROTHENB@montefiore.org] for pointing out that problems do
get syslogd'd
Mark Baldwin [mark.baldwin@makesys.com]
Michael Miller [Michael.Miller@oyster.co.uk]
<<vdisk.healthchecks>>
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